Scrutiny and best value principles

Scrutiny activities are conducted under the ‘best value’ principles of:

• challenge – asking why we provide this service and whether it is necessary
• consultation – talking to users, suppliers and others to find out what they want the service to do for them
• competition – questioning whether another organisations could provide the service more efficiently and effectively
• comparison – looking at other local authorities or businesses who provide the service better than we do and seeing if we can follow their example.